Snippet of Weather Underground Graph As you have surmised by now, one thing I stress as an educator is cross-curricular learning and relevancy. Current events have always been one of my fa...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2017/09/weather-underground-and-hurricane-irma.html
One of the things I always stressed in facilitating history instruction involved teaching students to think about how history helps us understand why things are the way they are today, and how i...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2017/04/loopy.html
Loving v. Virginia By now, I'm sure most are aware that the Loving story has been made into a movie. This past weekend, it premiered at the Virginia Film Festival , and was featured in a...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/11/loving-v.html
The Movement to End Child Labor in the U.S. While you probably haven't made it to the Progressive Movement yet, this set of pictures by Lewis Hine on child labor in the Washington Post l...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-movement-to-end-child-labor-in-us.html
INCORPORATING GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS IN YOUR HISTORY LESSONS I saw an article on in the Washington Post this week providing a set of cartograms highlighting the spending by the U.S. ...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/incorporating-geography-and-economics.html
Storytelling and Politics A few weeks ago, I finally sat down to watch the Sandra Bullock movie Our Brand is Crisis. It would be great to incorporate portions of this movie into a discussion ...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/storytelling-and-politics-few-weeks-ago.html
PRESENTATION OPTIONS This is the first year in over ten years that I will not be in the classroom as fall gets ready to start. I've taken a new position doing program evaluation in my di...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/08/presentation-options-this-is-first-year.html
Here is a cool new online archive of 20th century resources surrounding Winston Churchill. The archive includes primary sources such as images, cartoons, and documents. One of the most int...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/06/new-archive-of-20th-century-resources.html
You can use Google Classroom as a discussion board. You can pose a question and students can respond and comment on each others. Here's how. Open Classroom and click the "plus" sign. N...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/use-google-classroom-as-discussion.html
Jeff Feinstein, who writes for this blog, recently took his US history students on a field trip to the birthplace of the civil rights movement-- a fascinating museum in Virginia called the Robe...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/intro-to-birthplace-of-student-civil.html
AMA stands for Ask Me Anything. I've scheduled two AMA sessions for my students in advance of next Friday's APUS exam. Here's how it will work: First, I'll create a classroom in Today's Meet ...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/online-ama-review-session.html
I'm going to my first EdCamp event today. EdCamp events are free, open-ended professional development get-togethers. There are no formal presenters. Participants come with ideas, interests...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/im-going-to-my-first-edcamp-today.html
Fairfax County, VA's high school social studies specialist, Craig Perrier, is hosting a webinar on Teaching U.S. History in a Global Context. Craig is a dynamic speaker and very invested in t...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/online-seminary.html
Quizlet, the popular online review app, now has a live version for whole classroom use. It's called Quizlet Live and you can learn about it here . It's team-based and competitive, which will ...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/quizlet-ups-its-game.html
How did American art influence World War I, and how did World War I influence American artists? Those questions are addressed in a new exhibit opening in May at the Library of Congress. The ...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/cool-new-exhibit-on-world-war-i-at.html
The AP exam in U.S. History this year is during the morning session of Fri., 6 May, so it wasn't too early to plan our review activities. Here's what my team did, and how we used technology to ...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-we-used-edtech-in-our-apus-review.html
EdTech has made it to the New York Times. The story (Kahoot App Brings Urgency of a Quiz Show to the Classroom ) by @natashanyt focuses on Kahoot, described as being "like a television game sho...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-new-york-times-discovers.html
I subscribe to education alerts from The New York Times , which can be a great way to stay on top of what's going on with education policy. They also periodically cover different resources...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/icivicsorg.html
President Obama recently returned from an historic trip to Cuba. (This video from the Voice of America shows and discusses his arrival.) You could use that current event to introduce your di...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/more-nixon-resources-nixons-trip-to.html
Here's an extension to an already terrific lesson plan from PBS NewsHour Extra. That lesson plan ("Lights, Camera, Politics: Create Your Own Presidential Campaign Ad" ) invites students to crea...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/make-presidential-campaign-ad.html
The Richard Nixon Foundation has curated a terrific set of eight videos dealing with President Nixon's 1974 resignation. In this video (4:02), President Nixon discusses his decision to resign. ...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/more-nixon-resources-resignation.html
Here are some terrific short video resources to share with your students when you are studying foreign policy and diplomacy under Richard Nixon (from his vice presidency to his presidency). Her...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/video-resources-to-study-president.html
With all the primary chaos going on this year, it has been a government/U.S. history teacher’s dream for provoking thoughtful class discussion. It’s the perfect opportunity to include s...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-look-back-to-primaries-in-1968.html
President Obama is visiting Cuba today. His trip is to draw attention to his policy of seeking normalized diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States. His trip is timely for our s...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/resources-on-us-cuban-relations.html
The National School Boards Association just published its list of the 20 educational technology leaders for the 2015-2016 school year. (I'm not on the list. #Disappointed.) The teachers a...
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/20-to-watch-edtech-leaders.html